And just as has so often been the case, Kidman’s powers of metamorphosis again have a film festival buzzing and the 51-year-old actress back among the Oscar contenders. In Karyn Kusama’s “Destroyer,” Kidman is almost unrecognizable as Erin Bell, a haunted and hardened police detective with little will left for police work or life, at all. “I was just sitting back watching the last 15 minutes of the film going: ‘God, is that me?”‘ said Kidman. While that film, too, has earned positive reviews, it appears more likely that her performance in “Destroyer” could land Kidman her fifth Oscar nomination. Kusama recalled Kidman’s layered, shivering performance in one dramatic scene where Bell realizes something awful has happened.

Source: National Post September 11, 2018 20:48 UTC